India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s3.23
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s3.23
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c7.s3.23
Pāṇini uses the term Rumaṇvat, which the *Kāśikā* connects with a place producing salt (*Lavaṇa-śabdasya rumaṇa-bhāvo nipātyate*). The form Rumaṇvat may have been based on the name Rumā, a river or lake in the district of Sambhar in Ajmer which is also the source of the river Lūnī.